Covid-19: 11,548 new community cases, 19 deaths reported

There are 11,548 new cases of COVID-19as officials report a further 19 deaths in people with the virus in the past four days.

There are 710 people in hospital, 17 of whom are in an intensive care unit or high-dependency unit, the health ministry said Tuesday afternoon.

The seven-day moving average of cases is 9,550, up from 7246 last Tuesday, and the average of hospital admissions is 613, from 436 this time last week.

This is the highest daily number of cases since April 7, when 11,634 cases were recorded. The number of hospital admissions has also not been this high since April 4.

Aotearoa’s total number of publicly reported deaths on Tuesday surpassed 1,700, with 1,707 recorded deaths and a seven-day moving average of 17 deaths.

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Of those whose deaths were reported on Tuesday, one was in his forties, two in his sixties, three in his seventies, five in his eighties and eight over the age of 90. Ten were women and nine men.

One of the deceased was from the Auckland area, three were from Bay of Plenty, one was from Taranaki, two were from Whanganui, one was from Hawkes Bay, four were from MidCentral, one was from Lakes, three were from Wellington area, two came from Canterbury and one from South.

In its 1:00 p.m. updates, the Ministry of Health releases a total number of people who have died “with Covid” during a certain period. That doesn’t necessarily mean the virus killed those people, it just means they tested positive within 28 days of their death or immediately after.

The ministry will provide more information on the cause of these deaths at a later date website† You can read how this works here here†

The Department of Health and Te Whatu Ora – Health NZ said they are “closely monitoring” the continued increase in Covid-positive hospital admissions as part of the ongoing assessment and update of response to the current outbreak in the community.

The increase in hospital admissions also highlighted the importance of “everyone doing the basics right to get New Zealand through the winter in good shape”. This included staying home if unwell, taking a RAT and uploading the result, and isolating if positive or symptomatic.

The largest number of those hospitalized with Covid-19 were in Waitematā (north and west Auckland), with 141 positive patients as of Tuesday. Another 85 people at Auckland City Hospital with the virus, and 78 in Canterbury.

In Auckland, Canterbury, Southern, Counties Manukau, Waikato, Capital & Coast, Waitemata and Northland, the average age of those hospitalized with the virus was 64.

Of the new admissions in the seven days to Monday, 56 were unvaccinated or ineligible. Seventy-nine had received two doses of vaccine and 339 had been boosted.

It is expected that most people in hospital will be vaccinated with Covid-19. This is because more than 95% of the eligible population aged 12 years and older received two doses and 73.1% received a boost.

This may lead to vaccinated individuals being overrepresented in hospital admission data.

In the last 24 hoursCanterbury/West Coast had the highest number of new community cases (1723 – 1667 in Canterbury), followed by 1501 new cases in Waitematā.

Of the 11,548 cases reported Tuesday, 435 were reinfections. Of these, 122 cases were between 29 and 90 days of previous infection.

To date, 15,557 cases have been confirmed as reinfections.

Another 311 new cases had recently returned from abroad.

New Zealand has had more than 1.45 million confirmed Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic – of which 66,803 were active (meaning they were discovered in the last seven days) as of Tuesday.